It’s hard to argue that superintendents and their leadership teams have three higher priorities than student success, school quality, and the safety of everyone who learns and works in their district.
Here is where all 50 state school systems rank on these priorities based on graduation rates, access to resources, test scores, bullying-prevention programs and dozens of other data points crunched by Scholaroo, a college scholarship search platform.
Here are the top 10 overall, followed by the top 10 in each category:
- New Jersey
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Maine
- Delaware
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
- Colorado
Student success
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- Maryland
- Maine
- Virginia
- Vermont
- Washington
- Colorado
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Student safety
- New Jersey
- Colorado
- Maine
- Vermont
- Ohio
- New Hampshire
- Delaware
- South Dakota
- Oregon
- North Dakota
School quality
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Vermont
- New York
- New Jersey
- Massachusetts
- Delaware
- Rhode Island
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
The site also ranks state systems on bullying and dropout rates, math scores, spending per pupil, and student-teacher ratios.